Webinar on drug awareness

Amritsar: Zoology Department of DAV College, organised a drug awareness webinar to make youth aware about the ramifications of drug addiction not only on the health of individuals but overall impact on the society. Expert Dr Sonia Kapoor from GNDU talked about the perils of drug abuse and threw spotlight on the grave consequences of drug addiction on the individual, family and the society at large. She also explained the manner in which narcotic terrorism is killing country’s youth and urged upon all the stakeholders to help in discouraging this menace by spreading awareness about the same. “The problem of drug addiction is required to be addressed very seriously and effectively and all the stakeholders need to contribute their efforts in this regard,” she said. Principal Dr Rajesh Kumar shared the certain alarming facts about the drugs production and its usage. He highlighted the several causes that are observed in the young generations to go towards the drug addiction.

Seminar on New Education Policy

To deliver first-hand knowledge to schools about the New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and to assess its parameters, a seminar was organised by Goyal Brothers Prakashan for Sahodaya Schools Complex at Sri Guru Harkrishan Senior Secondary Public School, GT Road, Amritsar. The resource person for the seminar was Dr Usha Sharma, Prof Elementary Education, NCERT, Delhi. The seminar was attended by principals and primary teachers of about 64 schools. She apprised the audience that NEP is a comprehensive framework for elementary education to higher education as well as vocational training in both rural and urban India. Dr Usha further talked about FLN in it and introduced the launch of Vidhya Pravesh and NIPUN Bharat in July 2021.

Placement drive organised

Students of Global Group of Colleges is being conducted in full swing as students are being picked up for recruitment by many leading and multi-national companies including Infosys, TCS, Grazitti Interactive, Tata Communications, Piaggio Vehicles, Hanu Software Solutions etc. The highest pay package offered was Rs4 lakh per annum and the average pay package remained just above Rs3lakh for each student. Dr Akashdeep Singh Chandi, Vice Chairman, while congratulating the students, said the institute was committed towards providing career growth opportunities to its students along with academics, so as to make them an asset for the organisations they join after their studies. TNS